Adopt A Stream volunteers build analog beaver dams in North Creek

EVERETT — The air filled with the smell of cedar as volunteers weaved branches through wooden poles in North Creek near McCollum Park in Everett.

Volunteers from Crane Aerospace & Electronics worked on one of 14 planned analog beaver dams on Wednesday that the environmental nonprofit group Adopt A Stream Foundation is coordinating throughout the North Creek watershed to create critical fish and riparian habitat in an increasingly urbanized area.

The project is supported by a $200,000 grant from Washington’s Department of Ecology streamflow program and will fund work through August 2027. Snohomish County, the city of Everett and the Orca Conservancy also partnered with the foundation for land use and outreach.

North Creek’s headwaters are located adjacent to the Everett Mall, from which it then flows 12.6 miles through the town of Mill Creek before draining into the Sammamish River near Bothell.

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